Tens of thousands of Florida residents without power as Hurricane Milton slams into the Sunshine State. Many Florida energy companies warned customers in advance to prepare for outages caused by the storm.

Nearly two million Floridians are without power after Hurricane Milton hit the Sunshine State late Wednesday less than two weeks since Hurricane Helene 's devastation. Over 1.901 million outages have been reported in Florida as of 11 p.m. ET Wednesday, according to the USA TODAY power outage tracker.

Hurricane Milton is bringing dangerous storm surge, high winds and flooding rain to Florida. Here's where power is out around Lee County.